The frog on the log is a clue. It emphasizes the insignificance of the letter 'e' in the word 'pie'. Just like you probably wouldn't notice a frog sitting on a log, you dont pay attention to the letter 'e' at the end of 'pie' because it is silent. 'E' is also just one of 26 letters of the alphabet, all o which are equally important to the English language.

My goodness, I am such a geek, but I can't help it - I'm an English teacher!!

Well I guess this one proved that math is not my forte . But after reading the poem and the answer I really have to admire how well written and thought out this teaser was. For those of you who found it so easy, WOW I must have missed the ship when I was supposed to do the three R's. Spooky this was awesome! Even if I didn't get it.

I got pi but I didn't understand why you needed the second part; I was happy with the pun by itself. In the cobwebs of my memory vault, that natural logarithm thing is stored somewhere, so the last poem was an AHA! moment. Thanks for the math refresher.

I got pi really easily but could not figure out part 2. I knew the treat was pie but I thought maybe it was more than just pie...pie alamode or something. I just didn't know what the frog on a log was.

Great hard teaser. Made me think and was really well worded. Good job!!!

For the first one, I was also thinking abacus, but then the end gave it away -_-, and for the second, nothing sparked, and when I read the third, I was like, OMG! Pineapple! But what the heck? The second one is the letter e? That's hard..

Awww it was easier than I thought ... I saw the pi, and figured it was "something pie" although the pi was the first part, so in the order of Thing 1 and Thing 2 it would be "pie something" but ... that didn't seem to work for anything. I even use e a lot in my work, but the frog thing threw me off the ln (lawn -haha.)

This Teaser made No sense or failed at displaying any true Logic. Usually, I have nothing but nice expressions about the Teasers created. People work hard to entertain, teach or preach to us, but this one, blahhhhh

Though, after the first line, my initial thought was abacus, I solved the Part 1 quite readily but wasn't able to come up with the letter 'e' for the answer to the 2nd. I agree with those who say it was unnecessary as even without it I came up with Pie as the final solution (Pi being used to mean Pie). Before I read it, I was expecting the 2nd part to direct us to a specific type of pie.